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Super Teacher Worksheets

My Explorer Report

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This is the perfect resource to accompany your class project on famous explorers! Learners detail basic information about their chosen explorer, his/her main events of exploration and means of transportation, and finally,...
Activity
Super Teacher Worksheets

Mammal Scavenger Hunt Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Did you know that a polar bear's skin is actually black? Or that the lightest mammal weighs less than a paperclip? Young scientists learn these and other amazing facts about mammals as they explore the animal kingdom with...
Handout
Nuffield Foundation

Perimeter and Area

For Students 4th - 6th
Use several shapes to practice finding the perimeter and area. Each page presents examples of different items, including money, the floor plan of a room, and a parking lot.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Families of Lines: Room in Perspective

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Get a perspective of lines that share a point. The interactive displays a family of lines that share the same y-intercept. Individuals can find the equations of the lines by moving the line displayed and find what is common...
Activity
College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
Handout
Tennessee Pediatric Society Foundation

Commit to be Fit

For Students 6th - 12th
Staying physically fit takes time, energy, and commitment...but it can also be a lot of fun! This list includes 11 simple ways to stay motivated to exercise and will help your young athletes commit to a life of fitness and healthy living...
Writing
Curated OER

Writing Bug: Creative Writing

For Students 2nd - 6th
Do your writers have the writing bug? Give them this short prompt as today's writing activity. They have to decide how they'd spend $100,000, but they can't spend it on themselves! There's also a rectangular box at the bottom of the...
PPT
Curated OER

Accent Marks & Special Characters in Spanish

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Check out this clear description of how and when to use accent marks and special characters. The information, necessary to truly understand the purpose of special characters and accent marks would make a great reference material for...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Why Does ASA Work?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Your geometry learners explore Angle-Side-Angle congruence in this collaborative task. The sum of the interior angles of all triangles being one hundred eighty degrees, is the key learners will discover as they explain their reasoning...
Assessment
Bridges In Mathematics

Kindergarten Assessments and Scoring Checklists, Common Core State Standards

For Teachers K Standards
Whether or not your school has adopted Common Core standards, this resource provides great tools for assessing kindergartners' key numeracy and computation skills.
Worksheet
City College of San Francisco

Making Inferences: Reading Between the Lines

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Have you ever read part of a story and had to figure out what the rest was about? Practice making inferences with several short passages and multiple choice questions.
Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

The Power of Ten: Building a Magnitude Model

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Add visual representation to teaching place value with a magnitude model. Using adding machine tape, pupils build a linear place value strip from 1 to 100.
Interactive
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The New York Times

A Guide to Political Donations

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Voters determine the outcome of elections, but campaign donors can influence the attitudes of those voters. Explore nine examples of donors and the amounts of money they want to contribute, and the legal ways the groups can or cannot...
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NOAA

Marine Ecosystems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Be at the top of the food chain when it comes to understanding marine ecosystems. The 21st installment of a 23-part NOAA Enrichment in Marine sciences and Oceanography (NEMO) program investigates marine ecosystems, ocean zones, and food...
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Teach Engineering

Get the Word Out at McDonald's!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
To get the word out that the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP) contains millions of pounds of non-biodegrading plastics, individuals research the GPGP and write an article for a newsletter. Researchers present their facts in a...
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Chicago Botanic Garden

Albedo, Reflectivity, and Absorption

For Teachers 5th - 6th
What is reflectivity, and what does it have to do with the Earth's climate? As reflectivity is measured by albedo, scientists can gather information on Earth's energy balances that relate to global warming or climate change. Budding...
Lesson Plan
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Immigration: Why Come to the United States?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Don't limit your curriculum to texts! Young historians listen to a song, read an interview, and examine a cartoon as they explore motivations for immigrating to the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 
Lesson Plan
C-SPAN

Student Symposium and Resulting Action

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Your class may not be able to vote yet, but that doesn't mean they can't feel like they're part of the presidential election! The resource creates a symposium where pupils debate about a selected topic in current events during an...
Website
University of North Carolina

Figures and Charts

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Sometimes words aren't the best way to get information across to the reader. The eighth handout in the 24-part Writing the Paper series describes different type of figures and charts to display complex information in a paper....
Lesson Plan
NASA

Planning Time

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Ever feel there's just not enough hours in the day? Young adults explore an important part of personal development using a group of activities. After comparing how they actually spend their time with how they would like to, scholars...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Applying Tangents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What does geometry have to do with depression? It's an angle of course! Learners apply the tangent ratio to problem solving questions by finding missing lengths. Problems include angles of elevation and angles of depression. Pupils make...
Worksheet
Center School

The 16 Habits of Mind

For Students 6th - 12th
Which of Costa's 16 Habit of Mind best describes you? Take a short assessment to see which quality is most consistently like you, or which quality is not like you at all. 
Lesson Plan
Advocates for Human Rights

Human Rights in the U.S.

For Students 6th - 8th
Here's a fun, creative approach to the profoundly important issue of human rights. Young citizens do three activities, two of which involve them finding images from magazines that reflect human rights of their...
Worksheet
K5 Learning

Will the Wolf

For Students 3rd Standards
How well can a wolf survive without a pack? Third graders read about headstrong Will and his desire to be an independent wolf with a short story and series of comprehension questions.

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